Even with his shoulders unhunched ahead of departure, BBC DG Tim Davie reached for his verbal crutch of 'jeopardy' at least five times in his Guardian 'exclusive' interview. It's a discussion about what the BBC wants from 'licence fee reform', and a critic might say, after nearly five and a half years in the job, Tim has no clear view of the changes he'd want to make.
Interviewer Michael Savage reports "The BBC is in the process of examining how the licence fee could be made more progressive for some groups." Surely this sort of intervention is the job of Government ? Remember the 2015 licence fee deal bounced on the BBC by loveable George Osborne ? He made the BBC cover the cost of free licences for the over-75s as a way of making it look as though he was reducing the wider benefits bill.
And the Beeb bounced this back by only giving free licences to over-75's on Pension Credit.
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